COA THE COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE Volume 13. Number 1. . Spring 2017 GREENING THE FUTURE ECOLOGICAL HOPE FOR CHALLENGING TIMES Michael "Spike" Reid, international mountain leader and river activist, paddles beneath transformers on the Ganges River above Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. Photo by Galen Hecht '16. COA The College of the Atlantic Magazine Letter from the President 3 News from Campus 4 Why Teach in Taiwan? 8 Watson Report . Globalism 10 GREENING THE FUTURE Ecological Hope for Challenging Times 15 Community as Classroom 16 Growing Greener 20 Changing the Rules Cooperatives, Institutions, Economics 24 Enriching the Earth 26 In Their Own Words . Alumni reflect on the UNFCCC 30 Elutriate . Kate Donohoe ('91) 36 Poetry Thursdays 40 Remembered Earth Kirsten Stockman '91 42 Donor Profile . William and Donna Eacho 47 Alumni & Community Notes 48 In Memoriam 53 Transitions 54 The Wood Pellet Boiler 56 2017 Summer Events 57 X COA From the Editor The College of the Atlantic Magazine Volume 13 Number 1 Spring 2017 There was quite a discussion over what to name this issue of COA. President Editorial Darron Collins '92 quite liked Sustainability 2.0; others thought it restrictive. Editor Donna Gold Editorial Advice Faculty member Rich Borden suggested Only One Earth, the title of a book Heather Albert-Knopp '99 Rich Borden co-authored by René Dubos, a trustee during our first five years. That got my Lynn Boulger Dianne Clendaniel vote, but | was countered by those who thought it "too 1970s." That dates Rich Dru Colbert and me for sure. Those were formative times, years of change when populist Darron Collins '92 actions pushed our nation to expand civil rights and halt a shameful war- Anna Demeo Jennifer Hughes actually, it was all shameful, the war, the segregation, the limits on women, Tyler Hunt '16 Rob Levin the discrimination against lesbians and gays. As a teenager at the time, I held Matt Shaw '11 an innocent trust in the good of the world, a trust enshrined by a moment I'll Editorial Consultant Bill Carpenter never forget. It was at the end of the October 15, 1969 Vietnam Moratorium in Design Washington, DC. There were maybe a hundred of us on a knoll with a clutch of Art Director Rebecca Hope Woods musicians. Somehow, we all joined in a large circle dance, large enough to ring COA Administration Turrets and then some. The green grass, the pink and blue tie-dye clothing, President Darron Collins '92 the flowing hair, the flowers, all of us together. So simple. So powerful. I was Academic Dean Kenneth Hill certain the exuberance of my generation would prevail. Administrative Dean Andrew Griffiths Associate Deans Chris Petersen From those years, too, came the environmental movement, of which René Karen Waldron Dubos, the Pulitzer Prize-winning microbiologist, humanist, and COA trustee, Dean of Admission Heather Albert-Knopp '99 Dean of Institutional Lynn Boulger was a leader. He is thought to be the author of the phrase, "think globally, act Advancement locally," for he believed that environmental issues are best handled in their Dean of Student Life Sarah Luke "unique physical, climatic, and cultural contexts." COA Board of Trustees COA listened then, and we listen still. Our experiential form of education is Timothy Bass Jay McNally '84 local by definition. Our energy studies result in siting renewables on campus. Ronald E. Beard Philip S.J. Moriarty Our investigation into the world's trash problem is echoed by our efforts to Leslie C. Brewer Phyllis Anina Moriarty Alyne Cistone Lili Pew become zero-waste. Those who study food issues know the feel of dirt as Lindsay Davies Hamilton Robinson, Jr. they pull carrots and onions from the earth. And those who study the esoteric Beth Gardiner Nadia Rosenthal Amy Yeager Geier Abby Rowe ('98) language of international treaties, especially the ones focused on climate H. Winston Holt IV Marthann Samek change, actualize their studies in the halls of United Nations negotiations. Jason W. Ingle Henry L.P. Schmelzer Philip B. Kunhardt III '77 Laura z. Stone COA's interest in not wasting our resources, in using what we have, in Nicholas Lapham Stephen Sullens living well with the land, began long before sustainability or even green Casey Mallinckrodt William N. Thorndike, Jr. Anthony Mazlish Cody van Heerden, MPhil'17 were buzzwords. Consider our community gardens, our free box, our very Linda McGillicuddy curriculum! Perhaps at the very moment when I was shyly grasping the Life Trustees Trustee Emeriti hands of strangers on that DC rise, the sages of COA-Les Brewer, Father Jim Samuel M. Hamill, Jr David Hackett Fischer Gower-were planning this college-to-be, this extraordinary, experimental, John N. Kelly William G. Foulke, Jr. William V.P. Newlin George B.E. Hambleton environmental excursion into education; hands-on, local, and global. John Reeves Elizabeth Hodder Henry D. Sharpe, Sherry F. Huber Helen Porter Cathy L. Ramsdell '78 John Wilmerding The faculty, students, trustees, staff, and alumni of College of the Atlantic envision a world where people value creativity, intellectual achievement, and diversity of nature and human cultures. With respect and compassion, individuals construct meaningful lives for the mselves, gain appreciation of the relationships Donna Gold, editor among all forms of life, and safeguard the heritage of future generations. COA is published biannually for the College of the Atlantic community. Please send ideas, letters, and submissions (short stories, poetry, and revisits to human ecology essays) to: Donna Gold, COA Magazine, College of the Atlantic Front cover: Frenchman Bay by Ana Maria Zabala Gomez 20. 105 Eden St, Bar Harbor, ME 04609, or dgold@coa.edu Back Cover: To create these twenty-five-foot-long lines in the sand, Melissa Relyea WWW.COA.EDU Ossanna '91 and Mary Ropp '09 joined local runner Gary Allen and some nine others at Acadia National Park's Sand Beach before dawn on January 29, 2017. The images went viral. That's Melissa walking down the last S in the bottom photo, taken by Brent Richardson. Mary Ropp '09 took the wide shot on top. from sources FSC COA indicates non-degree alumni by parentheses around their class year. Members of COA's initial pilot program in the summer of 1971 are indicated by P'71 after their name.